1. Refreshments, introductions, & welcome
2. Soliciting provisional course plans from new students (to help in future
planning) (to prepare in advance, see filesplanner.html)**
Q&A.
3. Presentation by graduate, Jan Coe, of her "reflective practitioner's
portfolio," a review of her journey of personal and professional
development through CCT.
My synthesis project began as a personal and professional mission
to help students decipher their library assignments and learn how to do
research in general. In pursuing this goal, I learned a lot about 'information
literacy' but I also learned about the reasons being information literate is
important to me: it is a gestalt of a critical thinker. I discovered that
beyond becoming adept in the mechanics of information retrieval, what I really
wanted for my students are the very things I value and enjoy doing myself:
learning about communities of discourse; mulling over and asking questions
about existing knowledge; relinquishing preconceived notions about a subject;
and discovering new perspectives and interests. In the end, my project turned
out to be not so much a search for an information literacy course as it is an
exposition of one librarian's open-ended evolution into a critical thinker and
reflective practitioner.
Please RSVP to peter.taylor@umb.edu.
** If a new student cannot come, please submit your draft plan by email in
advance.
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